I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.
I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.
My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.
The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.
Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.
I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.
As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.
I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.
I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.
I'm going to become a real professional actress.
My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.
I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.
Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.
You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.
I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.
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